Gestalt Play Therapy

Introduction
When a child is abused, depending on the severity, it can be a lifelong of painful events, emotions and physical effects on the child. It is amazing how child abuse is seldom a single event; rather, it occurs on a regular base. It crosses all boundaries of income, race, ethnicity, and religious faith. A child abuser is usually closely related to the child, such as a parent, step-parent or other caregiver (KMI). The effects are often very damaging and agonizing, resulting in children or adolescence needing psychological help and sometimes even medication for a life time. Particular when children are molested or sexually abused, numerous times it is by ones family members or someone they know very well, frequently it creates more mental anguish on both the child and the family members. There are many play therapy treatments that can assist parents, schools, and the victims of such horrendous defilements to children and adolescents. This paper will discuss some of the effects of children/adolescences who have been sexually abused. It will also briefly discuss a portion of the Gestalt Play Therapy counseling methods that will help a child or adolescent recover and cope from such events. Lastly, it will give a brief counseling session of a young teenage girl who has possibly been sexual abused and later victimized an adolescence girl. The Empty Chair method will be shared to show how quickly results can occur for her particular situation, where some unresolved abuse may have taken place, as well as helping the adolescence take responsibility for her actions, which is very important in the Gestalt Therapy.
Once a child has been violated in a sexual manner, their knowledge and awareness of sex and sexual things be...

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